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Sent: Tuesday, February 22, 2005 10:12 AM
Subject: Call for papers
Call for papers
Debatte: Journal of Contemporary Central and Eastern Europe, invites submissions of manuscripts on
any aspect of Central and Eastern Europe (the area between, and of course including, Germany and
Russia) to be considered for publication in forthcoming issues of the journal. The history and
purpose of the journal are briefly explained in the statement below.
We are also interested to hear from anyone, anywhere in the world, interested in becoming involved
in the Editorial Board of Debatte.
For more details, please contact:
Günter Minnerup
School of History
University of New South Wales
Sydney NSW 2052
Australia
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Announcement from Editors of Debatte: Review of Contemporary German Affairs and Labor Focus on
Eastern Europe
We are delighted to announce that from January 2005, Debatte: Review of Contemporary German Affairs
and Labor Focus on Eastern Europe will merge to form a new journal. The new journal will be
entitled: Debatte: Journal of Contemporary Central and Eastern Europe.
This journal continues the traditions of two predecessors: Debatte. Review of Contemporary German
Affairs, and Labour Focus on Eastern Europe. Founded in 1993 in response to German unification,
Debatte has been in the forefront of the critical analysis of German politics, society, and culture
in the English-speaking world. Founded in 1976, Labour Focus has a proud record of giving a voice to
the democratic opposition in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe and offering a critique from the
left of both the communist and post-communist regimes in the region. In Debatte: Journal of
Contemporary Central and Eastern Europe the well-established strengths and traditions of both live
on, yet will give us the opportunity to be open to new and exciting scholarship. Also, a newly
constituted international editorial board is being established ensuring that we have the support of
scholars with specialist subject knowledge.
Debatte: Journal of Contemporary Central and Eastern Europe seeks to provide a radical critical
analysis that is sympathetic to democratic, labour, feminist and ecologist movements from
contemporary economic, social, cultural and political perspectives and developments in the region
bounded by Germany in the west and Russia in the east. We are particularly interested in all writing
on the social, cultural, and political life of Germany and Eastern Europe which connects the
specific problems of the region with the wider issues of world order, globalisation, and inequality.
We are looking to combine political commitment, academic rigour, contemporary relevance, stylistic
accessibility, and journalistic flair in order to create the kind of publication that straddles the
boundaries between academia and social/political debate; addressing itself equally to specialist
scholars in the field of Central European Studies, political activists, journalists, teachers, and
other interested readers. Debatte, welcomes a variety of submissions from the social sciences,
historical and cultural studies; all innovative and original analyses of any aspect of the region
falling within the purview of the journal will be considered.
We are also looking to introduce a new feature within the journal from 2005. We are interested in
receiving papers that perhaps are traditionally beyond the fare of academic journals. We would like
to receive shorter items, such as documentation, interviews, and eyewitness accounts, and will on
occasion translate articles from journals published in the languages of Central and Eastern Europe
which would otherwise not be available to our English-language readership.
We are very much looking forward to this new phase in the life of the journal and to inviting you as
an author and a subscriber.
Yours,
Günter Minnerup
Editor, Debatte: Rewiew of Contemporary German Affairs
Gus Fagan
Editor, Labor Focus on Eastern Europe
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